17th Century Tokens from the Collection of Quentin Archer

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, Aylesbury, Joseph Bell, Farthing, 0.81g/12h (BM 8; N 281; BW. 7); Buckingham, John Hartley, Halfpenny, 1660, 2.21g/6h (BM 45; N 298; D 34A); Chesham, Richard Amond, Farthings, 1664 (2), 1.45g/6h, 0.72g/6h (both BM 55; N –; BW. 42); William Childe, Farthings (2), 1.04g/6h, 0.94g/6h (both BM 56; N –; BW. 43) [6]. BM 56 at 1.04g good fine, BM 8 excavated, others fair to fine £120-£150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, 17th Century Tokens from the Collection of Quentin Archer.

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BM 8 bt December 2006; BM 45 bt H. Simmons November 2018; others G. Berry Collection, DNW Auction T13, 2 October 2013, lot 138, additionally: BM 55 at 1.45g and *BM 56 at 1.04g P.J. Preston-Morley Collection, DNW Auction 52, 28-9 November 2001, lot 925 [BM 56 T.O. Mabbott Collection, from Seaby May 1971], D.B. Griffiths Collection, Part II, DNW Auction T11, 11 April 2012, lot 78